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MediActive – Empowering migrants in the media sector
The MediActive project is sustaining the process of creating a National association of media professionals of ethnic minority background and is promoting the exchange of experiences (good practices) with similar organisations at the EU level. The project empowers migrants through advocating the adoption and implementation of inclusive media policies at local and national levels in Italy.
| Project Update March 2011
The project ended at September 2010 and the main results were the creation of the Italian Intercultural Journalists’ Association – ANSI and the publication of the book “New Persian letters”. ANSI is composed by journalists with a migrant background who work both with mainstream media and multicultural/ethnic media. The Association has already achieved some meaningful outcomes. Members have participated in relevant public events and debates at the local and national level, (“Engaging the media to foster Integration – Good Practices from NGOs & Regional Authorities” – Brussels, March 2011; “Ecritures – issues de la migration en Italie – Toulouse 2011; “II Jornada de Periodistes de aquí i d’allà” – Barcelona July 2010; “Covering Immigration: An International Media Dialogue” – Miami, May 2010). Furthermore, ANSI begins to be recognised as a stakeholder in the issue and is involved in consultations on the theme: its profile and contacts are in 2011 edition of “Journalist Agenda”, it is involved in the activities of the Observatory of the Charter of Rome (the code of ethics on the portrayal of migrants and refugees in the Italian media) and a project for the development of the association has been approved by the Open Society Institute. New Persian letters is a book published at the beginning of 2011 and it is composed by 14 letters written by journalists, bloggers and writers with a migrant background. The book is inspired to the Montesquieu’s novel and we are organising public presentation (Brussels and Genoa – March, Rome – April, Florence and Bologna – May). |
- Read more about the impact of project upto May 2011 here
COSPE News
Empowering Migrants in the Media Sector – Italy and Europe, Exchanging Experiences
EPIM has supported the official launch of the Italian Intercultural Journalists’ Association (ANSI), in a special seminar organised by Cooperation for the Development of Emerging Countries (COSPE) that took place in Turin. Established within the Italian National Union of Journalists, ANSI aims at promoting equal opportunities for journalists with ethnic minority background as well as to enhance diversity in the media also by means of constant exchanges with similar experiences at the European level.
Read more on COSPE website or the ANSI website
_March 2011
Nuove Lettere Persaine by Francesca Spinelli
A boy in Hong Kong who studied Fine Arts in Milan, a young Lithuanian cyclist in Tuscany, a Chilean girl in Rome who arrived in the eighties, a man from Cameroon who has the dream of building a house: these are some of the stories together in this brief collection, told with different styles and of irony united by the common thread. Fourteen foreign journalists have signed this tribute of an all author collective, entitled Persian Letters. From the inspiration of Montesquieu, these imagined characters are more or less autobiographical, describing their impressions of Italian friends or relatives.
